Current salary analyses confirm what many companies experience daily: experts for enterprise software are among the most expensive profiles on the market, and the gap keeps widening. Industry forecasts for Switzerland expect tens of thousands of unfilled ICT positions by 2032. Mid-sized companies cannot win a salary race against corporations and consultancies. We see the most effective way out not in higher offers but in the architecture of the system landscape. Every custom solution ties scarce knowledge to individual people and increases the future need for specialists. Those who consistently rely on proven standard processes in the cloud, build extensions cleanly and upgrade-proof, and hand routine work to built-in automation reduce that dependency structurally. Our recommendation for every system decision: clarify in advance how many specialists the solution will require in five years. The smaller the number, the more resilient the company.